17 ideas
7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
15585 | Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt] |
16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
21103 | Moral questions can only be decided by common opinion [Hume] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
21099 | People must have agreed to authority, because they are naturally equal, prior to education [Hume] |
21100 | The idea that society rests on consent or promises undermines obedience [Hume] |
20495 | We no more give 'tacit assent' to the state than a passenger carried on board a ship while asleep [Hume] |
21101 | The people would be amazed to learn that government arises from their consent [Hume] |
6703 | Poor people lack the knowledge or wealth to move to a different state [Hume] |
21102 | We all know that the history of property is founded on injustices [Hume] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |